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168 years ago · 1858
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
— Abraham Lincoln
138 years ago · 1888
“Our government is the creation of the people, established to carry out their designs and accomplish their good.”
— Grover Cleveland
124 years ago · 1902
“You have to have the stuff in you.”
— Teddy Roosevelt